Even now, there is no effective way to treat rabies except rabies vaccine. Then, I didn't even think about it. In ancient times, when medical conditions were underdeveloped, a person was accidentally bitten by a dog and got rabies. What should I do?
In ancient times, dogs were used as gatekeepers and nurses for wealthy families. In ancient times, it was difficult for the poor to support a family. How can there be extra money and food to keep a dog? Even wealthy families rarely get close to dogs except those who feed them, so dogs can't get close to humans, and the possibility of people being bitten is greatly reduced.
However, the low outbreak rate does not mean that there were no rabies cases in ancient China. So how did the wise ancients cure rabies in the face?
If you want to know how to solve rabies, you must understand how rabies comes from. First of all, not all dogs are infected with rabies virus. Rabies is a disease found only in mad dogs. When dogs or people are bitten by mad dogs, this deadly virus will be spread. If bitten by a rabid dog and rabies is not treated in time, then in ancient times, this person basically has no possibility of survival.
Although we didn't have rabies vaccine in ancient times, we still have some folk earthwork. One of them is to arrest the biting dog, take out the dog's brain, dry it and grind it into powder, and apply it to the mouth of the affected area to relieve rabies.
This method was invented by Ge Hong, a famous doctor in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, because he saw in his book that if people in the former dynasty were bitten by mad dogs and got rabies, there was basically no possibility of survival. So he decided to find a cure for rabies. During the research, Ge Hong was at a loss at first. So he first found a few people with rabies and observed their incidence. He is anxious when he sees rabies, and he can't hear a sound, even if he hears the sound of water, he will go crazy.
After several days of observation, Ge Hong reached a conclusion. A person bitten by a mad dog is bound to get sick within 7 days. If he doesn't get sick within 2 1 day, then this person is not in danger for the time being. If he doesn't get sick within 100 days, then this person is basically fine. Not only that, he also found that if the biting dog dies within 7 days, then the virus carried by this dog must be rabies virus. People bitten by dogs must have rabies, but the incubation period of the virus in the body is different, which leads to the uncertain onset time.
After the research made progress, Ge Hong began to look through the ancient medical books left over from the previous dynasty. Finally, he saw the method of fighting poison with poison in a book, so he was inspired and ordered people to catch the biting mad dog and kill it. Take out its brain, dry it and apply it to the patient's wound. Sure enough, Ge Hong's method came true, and most rabies patients did not get sick after this treatment. Ge Hong, who got the rabies prescription, was overjoyed, so he recorded this prescription in his elbow standby emergency prescription for future generations' reference.
However, although China has made remarkable achievements in the treatment of rabies for a long time, the modern rabies vaccine was not invented by China. Modern rabies vaccine was developed by French scientist Pasteur. And this person was able to develop rabies vaccine because he used the same method as Ge Hong. He extracted rabies virus from a child suffering from rabies and found that as long as the virus reacts chemically, the corresponding vaccine can be obtained. When it is implanted into human body, people can produce antibodies, which can reduce the incidence of rabies.
Although the world 1 rabies vaccine was born in the west, the research on rabies is still earlier than that in the west, which reflects the wisdom of ancient Chinese people and the profound Chinese medicine culture.